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Reference Base The Rhinoceros and the Chatham Railway: taxidermy and the... |
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The Rhinoceros and the Chatham Railway: taxidermy and the production of animal presence in the ‘Great Indoors’ |
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Jones, K. |
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2016 |
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History (Journal of the Historical Association) |
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101 (348) |
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710-735 |
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Indian Rhino
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This article considers the practice of taxidermy and its relationship to the ‘golden age’ of big game hunting, the science of natural history and the dramaturgical codes of empire by looking at the collecting exploits of one man, Major Percy Powell-Cotton (1866–1940), and his attempts to pr... |
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